Anyways, as the Baseball G-ds and purely cosmic feces-shoot would have it, one of the sixty-ish cards was Bob Hamelin's 1994 Score Select Rookie Surge KC Royals card. At the age of 26 in 1994, Hamelin hit 24 home runs in 312 AB, winning him the AL Rookie of the Year over some Clevelander named Manny Ramirez or something. Long story short, B.Hamelin was outta the MLB right on time to party like it was 1999. With that cynicism bracing the rest of this post or column or article or whatever, lettuce delve-some gentlepersons.
Right-fielder Aaron "Dave Kingman" Judge is the first of the Damn Yankees to be honored as such since Derek Jeter, or as I like to call him Barry Larkin in pin-stripes (no offense to Mr. Larkin) in 1996. Los Angeles Dodgers first-baseman Cody Bellinger is the second of Dem Bums to win the award in as many years, SS Corey Seager having won last-year. All-told, he is the record 18th Dodger to garner this particular accolade. Of note, each 'young buck' was named RotY unanimously; this occurring for the first time since 1997 whenst Scott Rolen and Nomar Garciaparra won-out. When someone references a 1997 model car, it still sounds new to me at first blush. I've gotta believe that on-top of being unanimous, it was even easier than that would indicate for the Baseball Writers' Association of America to come to this conclusion.
Right-fielder Aaron "Dave Kingman" Judge is the first of the Damn Yankees to be honored as such since Derek Jeter, or as I like to call him Barry Larkin in pin-stripes (no offense to Mr. Larkin) in 1996. Los Angeles Dodgers first-baseman Cody Bellinger is the second of Dem Bums to win the award in as many years, SS Corey Seager having won last-year. All-told, he is the record 18th Dodger to garner this particular accolade. Of note, each 'young buck' was named RotY unanimously; this occurring for the first time since 1997 whenst Scott Rolen and Nomar Garciaparra won-out. When someone references a 1997 model car, it still sounds new to me at first blush. I've gotta believe that on-top of being unanimous, it was even easier than that would indicate for the Baseball Writers' Association of America to come to this conclusion.
A. Judge, the six-foot-seven slugger has already a vernacular all his Judgian own and a Pepsi deal to boot and maybe I didn't mindlessly forget that diet offering... Nevertheless, he went yard an American League rookie record 52-times and put on a show at the All-Star break and struck-out over 200 times. The former record of 49 big-flies was held by Mark McGwire of the generation that juiced themselves instead'a relying on some Costa Rican factory to juice the ball, gosh darn it and Jiminy Cricket. Judge also ranked a league ichiban in runs with 128 and walks with 127. I'm offering a real mixed-bag of a review here, but I will say I'm impressed by Judge's ability to adapt and improve which I take as coming from a place of humility as much as desire.
The six-foot-four C.Bellinger too broke a home-run record all his own, in this the year of stoopid baseball. The 21-year-old's 39 dingers put him ahead of the former mark shared by Wally Berger in 1930 and Frank Robinson in '56. Bellinger too led the Dodgers with 97 ribbies and 87 runs. His part in batting the squad to within one win of World Series immortality was no small one -- until they were actually in said World Series and we all found-out together that he can't hit the curve-ball. Hopefully, he adjusts as well as his AL counter-part, there.
Other rookies we're supposed to believe had a chance of winning were the American League's Andrew Benintendi, Bosox outfielder and too, Orioles outfielder Trey Mancini. The National League ballot was fleshed-out by Paul DeJong, Cards short-stop and Pirates first-baseman Josh Bell. This last paragraph full of information was totally worthy-of-note and also got my word-count up to more where I like it. Congratulations to all, then.
The six-foot-four C.Bellinger too broke a home-run record all his own, in this the year of stoopid baseball. The 21-year-old's 39 dingers put him ahead of the former mark shared by Wally Berger in 1930 and Frank Robinson in '56. Bellinger too led the Dodgers with 97 ribbies and 87 runs. His part in batting the squad to within one win of World Series immortality was no small one -- until they were actually in said World Series and we all found-out together that he can't hit the curve-ball. Hopefully, he adjusts as well as his AL counter-part, there.
Other rookies we're supposed to believe had a chance of winning were the American League's Andrew Benintendi, Bosox outfielder and too, Orioles outfielder Trey Mancini. The National League ballot was fleshed-out by Paul DeJong, Cards short-stop and Pirates first-baseman Josh Bell. This last paragraph full of information was totally worthy-of-note and also got my word-count up to more where I like it. Congratulations to all, then.